Not for the Weak - Senior Advisor CVS Health Employee Review

2.0
24 July 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A variety of challenging work. Good experience for the resume. If you do well here, you can be confident that you can tackle anything. Pay is good. If you do good work and deliver on time, you aren't micromanaged and are left alone to do the job for the most part.

Cons

Multiple and frequent reorganizations, so be prepared to work for who you never expected to. (Sometimes for someone you've had conflicts before because you were working in different areas and the work environment creates these conflict.) Senior management doesn't seem to have a strategy that they can stick with for more than a year, so don't get too comfortable. Politically charged, and upper management is usually in CYA mode. Nobody feels very secure in their job, whether that's reality or not. Churn from the bottom to the top is high. Be careful who you trust, because I've seen too many cases where people get thrown under the bus, often undeservedly, which is a shame because there are many really good senior staff and managers. Unfortunately, they're often the ones who either transfer or leave the company. Adversarial relationships with many coworkers and managers are common, both within the same general area, as well as with different groups - due to stress from being overworked and understaffed, and the way we operate. Health benefits are ironically not good at all. If you don't keep things in perspective and manage your stress, it can be overwhelming. Very lean operation. We're succeeding and are profitable in spite of ourselves, and could be so much better if some changes were made. I suspect communication to upper management of what's happening at the lower levels and within the company is being filtered out, distorted, miscommunicated or misunderstood. Depending on where you work, there can be very long hours, and after hours/weekend work. Senior management is out of touch and they fear for their jobs as well. Arrogance seems to pay off. Currently, morale across the board is pretty low, and seem to be in survival mode. Fortunately a lot of people try to have a sense of humor with the chaos and workload.

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Pros

I learned a lot working there as far as how to run a business as well as how to develop a team. I had one of the most successful teams in the company ranking as the top store year over year in two separate markets, one in the Northeast one in the Southeast. I was a paragon winner with the company as well. My most recent DM was very supportive. I genuinely thank them for the opportunity and the knowledge that I acquired while working with them.

Cons

Work hours were excessive. To be successful hours worked were borderline slavery. While I willingly worked them to be successful, the week you didn't you were immediately behind. Vacations were almost non existent due to constant visitors from corporate stopping in to do reviews. Holiday weeks were paid 4 days regular 1 holiday and you worked all 5. The facade of the stores looking great when these people stop by versus the reality of the business is polarizing. There were always teams of people and excessive expenditures of payroll thrown into stores prior to their visits. While I understood the need to make an appearance, it was always will always be a backwards way off thinking. Company preaches quality of life for their clients while quality of life for their employees is non-existent. As a "manager" in your average store you will be "managing" a total of one person during your shift, with a total of 10 people at location. Location open hours will exceed total payroll hours ie Sun-Sat 7am-10pm = 15hrs per day x 7 days x 2 people = 210 hrs which excludes the need to have a person unload deliveries that come in during non opened hours. Your budgeted hours will be approximately 208 hrs. I will only mention that during the month of December that there are extended hours for the stores but no budgeted hours to accommodate. Stores are held to strict shrink targets with little to no control over external theft. Remember 2 people at location, if four people enter to steal there is nothing you can do to stop them. These are facts not personal prejudices.

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